Balance is everything: Bicycle messengers, work and leisure

Sociology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 618-634

  Fincham, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bicycle messengers; Employment; Ethnography; Subculture; Work life balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 47849096697     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038508091619     Document Type: Review

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